What is ASMR? Tingling Audio Headphone Fetish

November 12, 2014

ASMR is a fairly recent fetish that originally started as a non-sexual form of pleasure. It is a difficult experience to explain, and most people are best educated about it through experience. Plenty of videos can be found on the Internet that showcase exactly what ASMR is: the process of communicating it through language is troubling, however. Many people have experienced an ASMR sensation at some point through an audible reaction. Whispering is the most common of triggers, with proximity to the ear increasing the likelihood that someone will feel the response.

When it comes to the adult fetish of ASMR, whispering is almost always included. Typically talking about dirty things such as sex is enough to pleasure most people: both an erotic trigger and the ASMR is experienced in this instance. Fetishes such as jerk off instruction are also commonly packaged together with ASMR, as this is very closely linked to the audio fetish.

One of the vital aspects of ASMR is the requirement for headphones. A stereo output is commonly used and the response will only truly be activated with the usage of two-way input. The reason for this is to simulate a real-world audio cue. Because of this, special microphones are also used to record ASMR experiences: they simulate the location of the ears and then reefed this information back to the user.

ASMR has little to no scientific research explaining the occurrence. This leads many to believe that it is something you can only really experience – not define or describe using scientific ideas.

It is true that the best way to understand ASMR is to go through it yourself, and given the relative ease using just a pair of headphones and a video detailed for it, many people will do so with minimal effort. People often report higher levels of happiness and pleasure after non-sexual ASMR: it should be obvious from this that a sexualized element is more than likely to produce pleasurable results as a consequence of this.